Frank J. Tassone

Month: August 2018

  • 23 August

    Originally posted on Haiku Three Six Five. : the silver moonlight reflects on the silver car – centre stage, the cat.

  • A Cowardly Lion’s Soliloquy

      The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much.   I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days when I saw no beauty anywhere. I…

  • Sequence

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: waiting for soup at the kitchen trying to write something worth reading unleavened bread I sit next to a man with a crucifix as we talk it strikes me that we haven’t heard a word we’ve said lost moon I chanced on you in the city when they broke the…

  • Today’s Haiku (August 22, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 舌に傷からすあげはが雲にとまる　　福田若之 shita ni kizu karasuageha ga kumo ni tomaru             my tongue with a cut             a peacock butterfly perches             on a cloud                                                 Wakayuki Fukuda from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – hearing

    Originally posted on Bending moments: ? mountain temple pine trees bend  to the sound of OM ? Source: A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – hearing

  • #Publication Alert! (8/22/18)

      Delighted to report that one of my latest haiku appears in The Haiku Foundation’s A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN–Hearing:   heavy breathing before the summit rustled leaves Frank J. Tassone   Congratulations to all contributing haijin!    

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 22, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: censor’s strikes in dad’s war posts— silverfish   by Jo Balistreri (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 49.1, Winter-Spring 2018

  • Haiga, Haiku & #21: Underground Stories & August NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * underground the color of stone and travel * for #21 NaHaiWriMo 8-21-2018 * Karla Decker August 21 – underground *